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2025-01-15 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Senior Iranian official accuses Israel of placing explosives in centrifuge equipment
How very clever of Israel — well done, guys!
[IsraelTimes] Zarif claims Tehran ‘managed to detect’ bombs, doesn’t specify when incident occurred or mention Natanz; Blinken hints at opposition to Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities

Mohammad Javad Zarif
...former Persian foreign minister, Mouthpiece of Mullahs, good friend of John Kerry and similar exemplars of Merkin values...
, who was foreign minister when Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and world powers agreed to the 2015 nuclear deal and is now vice president for strategic affairs, alleged in a recent interview that Israel once planted explosives in Iranian centrifuge equipment, according to a translation of his remarks by Iran International.

"Our colleagues had purchased a centrifuge platform for the Atomic Energy Organization, and it was discovered that explosives had been embedded inside it, which they managed to detect," the opposition outlet on Tuesday quoted Zarif as telling the Hozour program.

Zarif also decried sanctions on Iran, blaming them for forcing Tehran to turn to intermediaries — opening up vulnerabilities in the supply chain that Israel can take advantage of.

"Instead of being able to order equipment directly from the manufacturer, sanctions force you to rely on multiple intermediaries for such purchases," he said. "If the Zionist regime infiltrates even one of the intermediaries, they can do anything and embed anything they want, which is exactly what happened."

"The issue with the pagers in Leb
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....
turned out to be a multi-year process, meticulously orchestrated by the Zionists," he noted, referring to the blasts in September directed against the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group.

Zarif did not specify in the interview when or where the alleged incident with the centrifuges occurred.
An interesting point…
In 2021, former Mosssd
......
chief Yossi Cohen intimated that Israel blew up an underground Iranian centrifuge facility at Natanz, in a kaboom that was allegedly caused by bombs planted within equipment there.

"It doesn’t look like it used to look," Cohen said in an interview at the time regarding the subterranean "cellar" at Natanz, where "the centrifuges used to spin."

Investigative news hound Ilana Dayan, who interviewed Cohen for Channel 12’s "Uvda" program, noted that two major blasts at Natanz were attributed in foreign reports to the Mossad during that past year, saying "a huge quantity of explosives" were built into a marble platform used to balance the centrifuges.

"The man who was responsible for these explosions, it becomes clear, made sure to supply to the Iranians the marble foundation on which the centrifuges are placed," Dayan said. "As they install this foundation within the Natanz facility, they have no idea that it already includes a huge quantity of explosives."

WILL IRAN ’SIMPLY REBUILD’ NUCLEAR PROGRAM IF ATTACKED?
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
meanwhile publicly hinted at his opposition to an Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, when pressed during an interview Monday with MSNBC why Israel should not take out Iran’s nuclear program once and for all now that Tehran has been significantly weakened.

"You have to look at what would be enduring and what would make sure that the program doesn’t come back. So one of the things you have to assess is: If that were to happen, would Iran simply rebuild and rebuild even deeper underground in a place that would be even harder to get to?" Blinken responded.

Blinken repeated his recent acknowledgement that Iran has accumulated enough fissile material necessary for a nuclear weapon and could upgrade material to bomb-grade quality within a week or so. However,
the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach...
actually developing a weapon would take far longer, he stressed.

"Iran is going to be faced with decisions of its own of how it wants to move forward, but I think the incoming administration would have an opportunity precisely because Iran’s on its back feet — the — it’s suffering economically in a terrible way," he said. "Its people are disputing so much of what the regime has done, particularly in meddling in the affairs of other countries throughout the region."

"This is a moment of opportunity, and maybe a moment of opportunity to resolve in an enduring way the nuclear challenge posed by Iran, but also the actions that Iran takes throughout the region," Blinken added.

Blinken’s comments came as White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said again on Tuesday that Iran was at its weakest point since the country’s 1979 revolution and its weakness was a concern as it may push the country to rethink its nuclear weapons posture, a concern that US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
has also voiced.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-01-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11143 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

#1 
Now, why wouldn't any of the other governments of the world, want such a Radical Islamic Terrorist driven culture. A culture with 2,000+ years of history of invading, raping, enslaving and killing even children.

From having a few nukes? (end snide remark)

But the MSM, Liberals, and Democrats still villainize Israel for taking steps to stop it? Is their anti-Semitic hate & $$$$$ making agenda so deep, that it has made them blind to the fact, they are on the Islamic Hit List also?

I guess that kinda also brings up the question.
Why did the Obama Admin (LSD's) do the 2015 Iranian Nuke Deal?

Why did the O'Biden coup and Obama Admin (LSD's) refuse to help the Iranians people, that are raising up against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard and Ayatollah in massive numbers?
Posted by NN2N1 2025-01-15 06:28||   2025-01-15 06:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Did they buy their centrifuges at PagerMart?
Posted by ed in texas 2025-01-15 08:48||   2025-01-15 08:48|| Front Page Top

#3 The idiots don't seem to understand that the energy stored in a spinning disk is huge. In early hard disks (1950s to say 1975) where you had the 12" to 20" diameter drives when one failed you could kill people even outside the computer room as shards blew out from the spinning disk breaking up.

Posted by 3dc 2025-01-15 10:21||   2025-01-15 10:21|| Front Page Top

#4 The formula for the energy in a spinning disk (rotational kinetic energy) is: KE = (1/2) * I * ω², where "KE" is the kinetic energy, "I" is the moment of inertia of the disk, and "ω" is its angular velocity.
Posted by 3dc 2025-01-15 10:24||   2025-01-15 10:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Islam is only about 1300 years old, NN2N1. Their depredations led to the end of the Dark Age in Europe, driving all those advanced Byzantine Empire types west (and north into Spain from North Africa).
Posted by trailing wife 2025-01-15 11:01||   2025-01-15 11:01|| Front Page Top

#6  Why did the Obama Admin (LSD's) do the 2015 Iranian Nuke Deal?

So that their beloved Iran would get nukes in a timely manner, providing what they saw as a kinder inevitable Muslim overlord than the jihadis supported by Saudi Arabia, et al would do. The Obama administration worked hard to guide the decline, as Jimmy Carter had done in his turn, and all the British governments for generations except Margaret Thatcher, and Angela Merkel by opening Germany to Syrian refugees.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-01-15 11:06||   2025-01-15 11:06|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ #5 missed it by that much

Posted by NN2N1 2025-01-15 11:32||   2025-01-15 11:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Spinning a low speed grinding stone on a high speed grinder.
Posted by Skidmark 2025-01-15 14:42||   2025-01-15 14:42|| Front Page Top

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